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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Confucian heritage"”.
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Valuing Cultural Diversity: the academic adjustment experiences of undergraduate Chinese international Business students at Victoria University
… international Business students from Chinese Confucian heritage cultural backgrounds at Victoria University, Australia. A qualitative methodology, using principles of grounded theory, was used for the study. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted for data collection. The transcribed …
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Strangers, sojourners, selves: the intercultural communication experiences of ethnic Chinese students in western tertiary education
… the intercultural communication experiences of Confucian heritage culture students in a western tertiary setting. Exploring the intercultural communication encounters enabled an understanding of how these ethnic Chinese students socially constructed their everyday lives. In addition, the study …
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Listening to undergraduate Chinese students' perspectives on plagiarism
… of plagiarism. Some scholars argue that as a Confucian heritage culture, Chinese students are more likely to plagiarize (Deckert 1992, Grimshaw 2007, Pennycook 1995, Sowden 2005). While others claim this characterization is reductionist and even racist (Liu 2005, Kubota 2004, Kumaravadivelu …
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Motivation, cultural values, learning processes, and learning in Chinese students
… and achievement, and (b) to investigate how Confucian-heritage culture (CHC) may combine with achievement goals or SAL to generate different learning processes and outcomes and to promote optimal motivation. A questionnaire was conducted during a two-week period with over 700 first-year …
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Differentiation in art education: Exploring two art teachers' responsive pedagogy in an elementary school in Taiwan
… teachers‘ responsive pedagogies in light of the Confucian heritage. The community- and issue-based art projects designed by the two teachers aimed to cultivate students‘ sensitivity to human concerns. It reflects the concept of nurturing a Jian Zi (君子, a superior person), who has both talent and …
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Ways of becoming : South Asian students in an Australian postgraduate environment
… from South East and Far East Asia, who share a Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) background, there are relatively very few studies on South Asian students, particularly postgraduate students from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (defined as South Asian for this study). This qualitative study about …
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An examination of privacy in the socio-technological context of Big Data and the socio-cultural context of China
… power of the East. China is a country with Confucian heritage and governed under decades of Communist leadership. Its philosophical traditions and social fabric have shaped the perception of privacy since more than 2,000 years ago. “Private” was not taken as negative but being committed to …